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Seattle Public Schools approves 2024-2025 school year budget; deficit cut to $94M
Seattle Public Schools has adopted its budget for the 2024-2025 school year, including using a short-term loan to lower the district's budget deficit. The General Fund Operating Budget for the 2024-2025 school year is set at $1.25 billion. General fund revenue is projected to be approximately $1.3 billion for next school year, meaning total revenue does not cover the district’s planned spending. As a result, the district is utilizing a loan to cover the deficit.
UW president to step down
SEATTLE — Ana Mari Cauce, who has served as president of the University of Washington for a decade, announced Wednesday that she’ll be stepping down at the end of her second five-year term in June 2025. She plans to return to her faculty position. “While I never imagined...
School Calendar & How to Subscribe
Families can subscribe to the district and/or school website online calendars. Your personal calendars update automatically when a change is made or when a new event is added. How to subscribe:. Click the calendar link(s) below:. Scroll to the bottom of the calendar page. On the right-hand side, under Subscribe...
GCHS Family, Career and Community Leaders chapter comes away big winners at national competition
Grayson County High School’s Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) chapter came away placing second in the nation in the Knowledge Bowl competition at the organization’s National Leadership Conference in Seattle, Washington. The first-ever GCHS Knowledge Bowl Team of Michenna Meredith, Gabe Secora, Laslen Hatfield, Cierra...
Associated Student Body (ASB)
An Associated Student Body (ASB) is a formal organization of students, including sub-component or affiliated student groups, formed at each public school within Seattle Schools. The programs of the ASB are any optional, noncredit, extra-curricular activity conducted in whole or in part by or on behalf of an ASB, during or outside regular school hours, within or outside school grounds and facilities and conducted with the approval of the school district or under the official designee to whom authority has been delegated to act on behalf of an ASB or sub-component group. ASB programs and activities must be of a cultural, athletic, recreational or social nature benefitting the ASB.
Kindergarten Jump Start: Aug. 20-22
Jump Start will be at Lawton on August 20, 21, 22 (Tu – Thu), 9am – 12pm. Lawton Elementary is excited to bring back Kindergarten Jump Start! We will reach out to families who have enrolled in both SPS (Enrollment for K is open now!) and are placed at Lawton with detailed information in June, but here is some early information:
Construction of New Alki Elementary to Begin
The Seattle Department of Construction and Inspections (SDCI) has issued the building permit for construction of the new Alki Elementary school building. Seattle Public Schools (SPS) received the notification Tuesday, July 9, 2024, and construction will begin later this month. “We are pleased to be able to move forward with...
NCW Libraries Program Feature UW Black History Professor
NCW Libraries is teaming up with NCW Equity Alliance to host a virtual program called “A Space For Black History”. It features University of Washington professor Luther Adams. NCW Libraries Communications Manager Amanda Brack says Adams will focus on attitudes surrounding “critical race theory” and “wokeness”....
Kent School Board votes 3-1 to send levy to voters in November
In a controversial Kent School Board meeting, the board voted 3-1 to put a $97.8 million three-year Capital Projects and Technology Replacement Levy on the Nov. 5 general election ballot. A board majority of President Meghin Margel, Tim Clark and Awale Farah approved the resolution at the July 10 meeting....
Hey Class of ’74 Pirate – have you RSVP’d yet for Highline High School’s 50-year reunion on Saturday, Aug. 24?
Highline High School’s Class of 1974 will be holding its 50-year Reunion on Saturday, Aug. 24, 2024 at The Cove in Normandy Park, and ’74 Pirates are needed. This landmark reunion will be held from 4:30 – 9 p.m. at The Cove. “To the class of ’74...
North Seattle student named to Dean's Honor Roll at Wichita State University
WICHITA, Kan. (July 8, 2024) - Wichita State University has announced the names of 3,430 students who were on the WSU Dean's Honor Roll for spring 2024. To be included on the dean's honor roll, a student must be enrolled full time (at least 12 credit hours) and earn at least a 3.5 grade point average on a 4.0 scale.
University Of Washington School Of Drama Welcomes Chi-wang Yang As Assistant Professor Of Acting
The University of Washington School of Drama has announced the appointment of Chi-wang Yang as Assistant Professor of Acting, starting in Autumn 2024. Chi-wang Yang brings a wealth of experience as a theater director, interdisciplinary artist, and educator. Known for his dynamic and collaborative approach across plays, operas, concerts, and installations, Yang is dedicated to pushing boundaries of identity and theatrical expression, exploring intersections of body, emotion, and technology.
Positive Discipline Philosophy at Magnolia Elementary
All people, young and old, regardless of race, class and culture, are worthy of dignity and respect. Misbehaving children are frustrated children. Punitive practices and systems work to the detriment of all young people and perpetuate a legacy of oppression and inequity. All people, young and old, are continually making...
Aviation Students Pitch (Theoretical) Improvements to Port of Seattle
Doing well on a final project will get you an "A" at most schools. But at Raisbeck Aviation High School, a few students a year get an all-access "dream day" at the airport. Jul. 14—TUKWILA — Doing well on a final project will get you an "A" at most schools. But at Raisbeck Aviation High School, a few students a year get an all-access "dream day" at the airport.
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